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inn

noun
/ɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).

  1. derived from inn
  2. derived from in

Definitions

  1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.

    • [H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.

  2. A tavern.

  3. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law…

    One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.

    • the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.

      • Leicester Inn

    2. A place of shelter

      A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.

      • But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.
      • Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.

    3. To take lodging

      To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.

      • But where do you intend to inn to-night?
      • We inned at the signe of the Swan.
      • I never innd in the Towne but once.

    4. To lodge or house (someone or something).

      • I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone.
      • These Inn'd themselves all Night in Knights-bridge Fields.

    5. Initialism of international nonproprietary name.

    6. A right tributary of the Danube in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

The neighborhood

Derived

coaching inn, coach inn, Cross Inn, inmate, innful, innholder, innkeeper, innkeeping, innless, innlike, innyard, motor inn, New Inn, no room at the inn, posting inn, Tram Inn

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at inn. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at inn. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at inn

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA